The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-15

SIlhil Of 1HE / hECS.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.
The Views of Our Contemporaries on
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest.
There are about twenty-five boys and
young men here out of employment, not
as matter of choice but because there is
absolutely nothing for them to do Wash
ington On. o. Gazette.
John Nichols is socially and politically
dead. Josephus Daniels preached his fun
eral sermon in the STATE CHRONICLE 1t
is now time to bury him. Dirt to dirt
shovel it on and pile it high Winston
Sentinel.
A high authority states that the profits
of the southern cotton mills last year were
from Is to % per cent. We observe that
the Odell Manufacturing Company, of
Concord, last week declared d semiannual
dividend of 10 per cent. Twenty per cent.
per annum is not bad interest on an in
vestment, and bear in mind that this 20
per cent. is only the direct result. States
vile Landmark.
1t is to be hoped that the rumor as to
the proposed resignation of General Mas
ter Workman Powderly is not true. The
prominence that the order of the Knights
of Labor has acquired is due very largely
to the intelligent administration of Mr..
Powderly as its chief officer. He is CON
servative in his views. and yet thoroughly
alive TO everything which will promote the
interests or welfare of the worhingmen.
If his counsels had been entirely followed
the order would not today have 50 many
internal dissensions Washington L. CD
Gazette.
There is but one valid plea which can be
urged against female suffrage, and that
is. here in the South our ladies would not,
as a general thing, 90 to the polls while
all the negro wenches would flock around
them, thus putting the whites at a very
decided disadvantage about election times.
This, however, does not alter the right of
the matter; II is simply an impedlment III
the way of the right We look for 40
solid. salutary, lasting reform in anything
till woman, armed witt. the ballot. shall
have a voice in saying whether certain
evils which effect her and her home, shall
continue TO prevail, or shall be abolished.
- Wadesboro Intelligeucer.
The platform upon which the last candi
date for Governor on the Republican ticket
stood would if written in plain English,
have read somewhat after this fashion.
The Democratic candidate is lawyer; he
is an educated gentleman; was a brave and
gallant soldier has for great many years
been entrusted by his people with high,
honorable and delicate trusts, to all of
which he has proven true. am no.
body, / have no education. hate decent
people, who happen to have a little more
than | have, either of education, charac-
ter, property, refinement or general cul
ture, l ride a mule, plow poor land,
am an onnerry cuss, watch old York. -
Goldsboro Argus.
The Daily Inter Ocean is on the anxious
seat It wants 70 know why the Demo
Gratis Of Pennsylvania held a State Con
yention for the nomination of candidates
when there is not the shadow of a shade
of a chance for their election.
Well, the reason is that although the
people Of Pennsylvania are mostly Repub-
icans, YOU never can tell when they will
get their eyes open and come 10 their
senses Therefore the Democrats made up
their State ticket so that in case these Re
/ pubicans recovered from their little de-
lusions they could have the opportunity to
vote for honest officials
That conundrum is almost too easy
1 New York Herald.
! Immense sums of money, wrenched from
/ vile and deluded votares, will be expend-
ed in Washington at the next session of
! Congress to secure the admission Of the
4 State Of Utah. really bottomed on degrad-
4 ed womanhood as foundation though dis
/ gused under the fmsy veil of clause of
/ the constitution prohibiting it, intended to
/ be thrown off as soon as occasion may re-
! quire Let no member of Congress from
4 North Carolina make the fatal mistake of
listening to that syren song or toying with
that circeaI delusion. The American States
of this Union can never afford to admit
! into their confederation a State based
upon degraded womanhood, which means
a manhood of unrestrained lechers. -. Dur
ham Recorder.
Country life has been the theme Of poets
from immemorial time. Horace sang
charmingly of its pleasures and delights,
and pious Cowper poured out his soul IL
graphic verse in their celebration. Thomp
son thus sums up the charms
"Here too dweils simple truth. plain limo
cence;
| Unsuiliesi beauty: sound unbroken youth:
Patient of labor, with little pleas d;
| Health ever blooming; uuamb1t1ous toll;
| Calm contemplation and poetic ease.
The man who resides on his farm anC
cultivates his swelling acres, really is tht
only free man He lives remote from The
hot rivalries and bitter contentious O
men, from the vice and corrupting infiu
ences of town life, and drinks in the pures
Measures Why the youth of the count r